Rethink education and flip the class room
Educators across the globe are scrambling to find out how to avoid students cheating on their homework and exams using AI. Increasing control and surveillance measures are not going to fix it: We need to rethink education.
We need to build education around the kids, their intrinsic curiosity and love of learning, and their ways of making sense of the world, which is highly defined by age. Thinking that all pupils and students aged 5-25 will learn what they need by sitting down and listening to a teacher for hours five days a week is actually a rather insane idea once you think about it. We need to flip the classroom and get much more benefit out of all those children and young people being simultaneously in the same place called school. The Nordics have 150+ years of experience doing this, but even we can become better at it.
Target Audience
Educators K-12, secondary and tertiary education, administrators, politicians and civil servants in the education sector.
| Format | Keynote | Workshop | Course | Collaboration |
| Time | 1-2 hrs | 1-3 days | n/a | Customized |
Backdrop: Education was developed for a different world
The current school system is a product of industrialization: With the invention of the steam engine and an entirely new economy, new kinds of jobs, and the emergence of a “work force,” societies and policy makers had to come up with a model for mass education. It became the knowledge-transfer-factories that we know today, which have served our parents and grandparents well. This school form was created in a time without public libraries, radio or television, and definitely no internet where all kinds of information and rubbish is now a split second away. It was also a time when there were plenty of children around when children were at home, and socialization happened during play among these children of many different ages.
Now the world is entirely different, and school must be too. There is plenty of access to knowledge and misinformation at home, but no children with whom to play, and to other teens with whom to explore the world and what it means to gradually becoming an adult. The other children are at school, and so are the other teenagers, and there is barely any opportunity for doing stupid things from which children and teens can learn and draw their own conclusions and life lessons. We are robbing children of a crucial part of turning into a whole, human adult.
This presentation is about how we can fundamentally rethink education to give children and youth what they need and what will keep them motivated to study.
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